Timely Tips(c): Volume 4, Issue 11;
November 2007:
"Drag & Drop" to Create New Tasks
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A Tip Featured in My New Book, "Taming the E-mail Beast"
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One of the key tips I share in my new book is how to very quickly create new tasks in Microsoft Outlook, by using "drag and drop" to pull an active e-mail and drop it onto your Outlook task function to auto-create a new task. Here's how it works: if you have an e-mail that has an embedded task that you need to complete, simply select the e-mail (usually a single left click) -- but keep holding down the left mouse button, and then drag the e-mail over to your "Tasks" icon in your Outlook Shortcuts view, and drop onto that icon.
What Outlook does is pretty cool -- it then automatically creates a new task based off of the information in that e-mail. The subject of the task will be the subject of the e-mail -- I usually type over the e-mail title with the actual description of the task. You will also note that the body text of the e-mail now appears in the notes field near the bottom of the open task window -- thus, you have all of the relevant related information from the e-mail handy. Simply select a due date, and, if you so choose, a category for your task, hit "Save and Close", and you've generated a new task with additional useful information in a very quick manner and form.
Play around with this -- you can also drag and drop e-mails into your Calendar icon to create new calendar events, and also into your Address Book to automatically create new contacts. I find it a very handy way to definitely save time in this very common business/technology function.
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Speaking of Taming the E-mail Beast, the E-Book version
is NOW Ready!
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I've got a very nice and workable version of this 20-chapter e-book, all about how to get your e-mail account under control, keep it under control, get CC's and forwards under control, and enhance your e-mail sanity and productivity.
Coming up --
I'm keeping the pre-publication offer available to you for just a little longer, as we build the related book readers' web site, which will feature several video tutorials from the strategies shared in the book. So, if you want to take advantage of the discounted pricing for the e-book, use the link below:
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Until Next Time ...
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Once again, thanks for your continued support. Get started on that holiday shopping! And get those lights up -- my kids love them! Stay timely.
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Presented by:
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Randall Dean Consulting & Training, LLC
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